The Russellville Democrat., 1887-11-30

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 date at the bank of the grave,v says every
 infraction of the laws of your physical l being.
 Whatf Win mans body never corA- pletely recover from early dissipation in
 this world? Never. How about the
 world to comeg Perhaps God will fix it up in the resurrection body so that 1t will
 not have to go iimping through all etern- l ity; but get the liver thoroughly damaged
 and it will stay damaged. Physicians
 call it cancer of the liver, or hardening of | the liver, or cirrhosis of the liver, or in- ] hammation of the liver, or fatty degenera-
 ton of the liver, but Solomon puts all
 these pang Into one figure and says:
 Till tho dart strike through his liver.
 Hesiod seemed to have some hint of this 1 when he represented Pfomctheus, for his crimes fastened to rtlar, and an eagle 1 feeding on his liver, which was renewed again each night, so that the devouripg
 went on until finally Hercules slew tho eagle and rescued Promethens, and dis l sipated early life assures ferocity peck
 ing away and clawing away at the live year in and year out, and death Is tho only Hercules who can break tho power
 of his beak or unclinch It's claw. So also Virgil and Homer wrote fables about vutures proving upon the livof, but there are those here to-day with whom it is no l fable, but q terrific reality.
 | That young man smoking cigarettes and
 smoking cigars has no idea that he is get | ting for himself smoked liver. That young man has no idea that he has by
 early dissipation so depleted his energies
 that he will go into the battle only half
 armed. Napoleon lost Waterloo days be- 1 fore it was fought Had he attacked the | English army before it was reinforced, and taken it division by division, ne might
 have won the day, but he waited until he l had only one hundred thousand men
 against two hundred thousand. And here l IS young man @ho, if he 1 put all his forces against the yegi- ment of youthful temptations in | the strength of Go1 might drive
 them back but he i, allowing them to
 be reinforced by the whole army of mid 1 life temptations, and when all these com
 bined forces are massed against him and
 no Grouchy comes to help him, and Bluch- CT has come to help his foes, what but i'm l mortal defeat can await him?
 1 Oh, my young brother, do not make the | mistake that thousands all around you are | making in opening the battle against sin | too late, for this world too late, and for l the world to come too late. What brings that express train from St. Lcnis into l Jersey City three hours latef They lost fifteen minutes early on the route i and that affected them all the wsy, and | they had to be switched off heye and l switched off there and detained hrre and | detained there, and the man wbo loses | time and strength in the earlier hart of I .F | way through, the first twenty veats of life damaging the following fifty years.
 l Some years ago scientific lecturer went
 through the country exhibiting on great
 canvas different parts of the human body I when healthy and different parts when l diseased. And what tho world wants now is some eloquent scientist to go | through the country showing to onr young people on bl aging canvas the drrnkard's l liver, the idler's liver. the libertine's liver, | the gamblers liver. Perhaps the spectacle might stop some young man tefore he 1 comes to the same catastrophe and tho | dart strike through his own liver.
 My bearer, this is the first sermon you
 have heard on the gospel of health, and it
 may be the last you will ever hear on that | subject, and charge you in the name of 1 God, and of Christ, and usefulness, and
 eternal destiny, take better care of your | health. When some pf you die, if your | friends put on your tombstone truthful l epitaph, it will read: "Here lies the vic- | tim of late suppers:" or it will be, "Be- | hold what chicken salad at midnight will l do for a man." or it will be: "Ten cigars a l day closed my earthly existence; = or is will be: "Sat down in. 6 cold
 draught and this is the result;" or
 it will be: 'I died of thin shoes last l winter;" or it will be: "Went out with out an overcoat and took this last chill,n | or it will be: "Thought 1 colld do at, | seventy what did at twenty, and I am here;" or it will be: Here is the conse. | quence of sitting a half day with wet | feet;" or it will be: 'tThis is where l have stacked my harvest of wild orts;" or, in- | stead of words, the stonorcutter win
 chisel for an epitaph on the tombstone
 two figures, namely, dart and liver. 1 There is a kind of sickness that is beau | tiful when it comes from ovsrwork for God, or one's country, or onc's family. have seen wounds that ware glori- ous. After the battle os Antie. | tam, in the hospital, soldier
 In reply to my question: "Whers gre you | hurt" uncovered his bosom and showed
 me gosh that looked like badge of
 eternal nobility. I have seen sn empty l sleeve that was more beautiful than the most muscular forearm. I have seen q | green shade over the eye shot out in bat l tie that was more beautiful than any two 1 eyes that had passed without injury. have seen an old missionary, worn out with the malaria of African jungles; who looked more radiant to mo than a rubicund | gymnnst. 1 have seen mother, after a | six weeks watching over family of l children down with tho scarlet
 fever, with glory around her pale and wan face that sur. | passed the angelic. It all depends on how | yon got your sickness and in what battle | your wounds. Frederick T. Frelinghuy- sen, the pride of New Jorsey--aye, of the l Nation-and ono of the pillars of the l Christian Church, and for nearly four | years practically President of the United 1 States, although in the oflice of Secretary 1 of State, in his determination to make peace with all the governments on this | American continent, wore himself out, and while his brain was as keen as it ever l was, and his heart boat as regularly as it | ever did, he was, according to the bule- | tins of his physicians at Washington and Newark, dying of hardening of tho l liver. Satan, who does not like good men, sent dart through his liver. Tho last my dear f.'iend-for he
 was my friend and my fathers friend
 before me--the last he was seen in Wash ington was in the Presidents carriage,
 leaning his head against the shoulder of
 the President, on his way to the depot to
 take the train to go home to die. Martyr
 of the public service, he died for his coan- try, though he died in time of peace. In
 his earlier life he was called the nephew of his uncle, Theodore Frelnghuy sen, bgt
 he lived to render for God and his country
 a service that will make others proud to be his nephew, and which will keep his
 name on the scroll of history as the high
 est style of Christian statesman that this cnntnrY OF any other cnntnrY has nro-